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'Delivery protests are our right'

October 21 2009 at 02:58PM

By Ella Smook
Metro Writer

Groups representing impoverished Cape Town communities have lashed out at President Jacob Zuma's warning that the government will not tolerate violent service delivery protests, and the accompanying destruction of property.

Representatives of the Joe Slovo task team, the Landless People's Movement and Abahlali baseMjondolo defended these protests, saying they were the only way to get the government to pay attention.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5195070

'We won't go to Blikkiesdorp'

Symphony Way safer, say residents

FATIMA SCHROEDER and KOWTHAR SOLOMONS Staff Reporters

THE CONTROVERSIAL pavement-dwellers in Symphony Way in Delft got their marching orders from the Cape High Court, which ordered them to relocate to temporary accommodation in Blikkiesdorp.

However, the residents say that while they are willing to move, they will not move to “that dump”.The order, which affects more than 100 families, gives them until next Thursday to “engage meaningfully” with the City of Cape Town on the dates of the relocation, and to set up a timetable for the relocation process.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/?fArticleId=5128396

Angry residents attack off-duty cop
'We'd rather die than live here'

August 17, 2009 Edition 1

KOWTHAR SOLOMONS and FRANCIS HWESHE

AN OFF-duty policeman who was attacked and beaten over the head with a large rock by protesting Khayelitsha residents is in a serious but stable condition in hospital, police said this morning.

The officer, whose name police have declined to release, was attacked when he tried to drive through a barricade erected by residents of BT Section, Site C, Khayelitsha yesterday.

http://antieviction.org.za/2009/08/14/media-cop-fires-on-cape-argus-team/

Note: The police routinely shoot unsuspecting residents and their children without warning. Generally, police justify their actions by saying residents are throwing rocks at them (this is often a lie). It takes police shooting the media for newspapers to actually public the truth.

http://www.capetimes.co.za/?fSectionId=3531&fArticleId=vn20090814121211575C326184

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Backyard dwellers demand change

August 11 2009 at 01:18PM

By Francis Hweshe

Angry backyard dwellers in Khayelitsha's Mandela Park - who burnt tyres in the streets of their neighbourhood - have given the provincial housing department a week to address their concerns or they will illegally occupy empty housing units in the area.

The residents, who protested there on Monday as police and private security guards kept a close watch, say they are at their wits' end and want action now.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5117053

Revolt a symptom of historical pain

August 08, 2009 Edition 1

Josette Cole

There are moments in one's life, especially in the life of a political activist, social historian and, community development practitioner, when you are challenged to make a choice about where to focus energy.

After several years of still being active but somewhat publicly "silent", I have decided to become a bit more publicly vocal, adding my voice, shaped and influenced by three decades of continuing commitment to attain political, social and economic justice, to the many voices (some old, some new) aired in the media on our country's complex and sometimes contradictory political and civic affairs.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5118415

Official slams profiteers who sell or let subsidised RDP dwellings

August 09, 2009 Edition 1

VUYO MABANDLA

THE Human Settlements Department has slammed those profiteering illegally from subsidised houses in Cape Town townships.

Spokesman Zalisile Mbali yesterday said the department was aware of the illegal selling and renting of RDP houses in Du Noon, Delft and Khayelitsha.

He labelled those who "unlawfully" put their subsidised homes up for sale as "money-hungry individuals, who are greedy and intent on targeting desperate people in need of homes".

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5116368

Sexwale puts eviction to Delft on hold
Joe Slovo residents 'must be given time'

August 07, 2009 Edition 1

Andisiwe Makinana

HUMAN Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has promised the residents of Joe Slovo informal settlement a reprieve, saying they will not be immediately removed from the area to Delft.

Sexwale, who visited a number of the city's informal settlements yesterday, told a meeting of about 500 people in Joe Slovo that despite the Constitutional Court ruling in favour of the housing department to remove the residents to Delft so that the next phase of the N2 Gateway project could start, he will have the implementation of that judgment postponed.

The City's entirely technocratic, authoritarian and inadequate response to the AbM protests is online here.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5111801

Khayelitsha residents to be briefed on solutions for service delivery

August 04, 2009 Edition 1

Francis Hweshe

THE CITY is to meet Khayelitsha residents next week to tell them what efforts have been made to address their concerns since the service delivery protests there two weeks ago.

http://www.capeargus.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5098856

Bid to 'extinguish' attacks on Somalis

July 26, 2009 Edition 1

VUYO MABANDLA

A meeting is to be held today in Gugulethu in a bid to reduce tensions and "extinguish" a rise in xenophobic abuse of Somali traders by locals.

This comes after a series of attacks in Samora Machel last week in which seven Somali shops were forcefully closed down by local traders.

The violence was sparked after a deal reached last month between local and foreign business people failed. In terms of the deal, local and Somali shops should operate at least a hundred metres away from each other. The other part of the deal was that certain products at the shops should be sold at the same price.